Comparing supreme courts / Brice Dickson -- 'Restrained activism' in the High Court of Australia / Fiona Wheeler and John Williams -- Judicial activism in the Supreme Court of Canada / Kent Roach -- The Supreme Court of India / Venkat Iyer -- The Supreme Court of Ireland / William Binchy -- Judicial activism in Israel / Eli Salzberger -- Judicial activism and New Zealand's appellate courts / Bruce Harris -- Judicial activism of a special type : South Africa's top courts since 1994 / Hugh Corder -- Judicial activism in the House of Lords 1995-2007 / Brice Dickson -- The United States of America / Mark Tushnet